What Doesn't Kill you Makes you Blacker : : a Memoir in Essays
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Introduction: Living while black is an extreme sport -- Nigger fight story -- Street cred -- Bomb-ass poetry -- Your turn -- No homo -- Driver's ed -- Three niggas -- Obama bomaye -- Broke -- How to make the internet hate you in 15 simple steps -- Banging over bacon -- Yolo -- Living while black killed my mom -- East liberty kutz -- Thursday-night hoops -- Zoe.
The co-founder of VerySmartBrothas.com presents a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the direct impact of racism on his life, the shifting definition of black male identity, and the ongoing realities of white supremacy.
Contents: Nigger fight story. -- Street cred. -- Bomb-ass poetry. -- Your turn. -- No homo. -- Driver's ed. -- Three niggas. -- Obama Bomaye. -- Broke. -- How to make the internet hate you in 15 simple steps.
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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019]
Year Published: 2019
Description: 307 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780062684301
0062684302
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Young, Damon.
SUBJECTS
Young, Damon, -- 1978-
African American men -- Biography.
African American journalists -- Biography.
African American men -- Social conditions.
Racism.
United States -- Race relations.